​Shooters Clinic

​Mid-Range ProneTactical Rifle Match

Match Director: Don Travers - 520-270-7322nrahighpower@tucsonrifleclub.org Pit Boss: Bob AhrendtThe HP Shooters Clinic is held quarterly on the fourth Sunday of the first month of the quarter. Subject to seasonal adjustments, squadding starts at 0630 (0730 winter) and the program starts at 0700 (0800 winter). Normal finish time is 1300. The clinics will run in a practice format and will provide coaching and instruction for the Mid Range Prone Tactical Match, Long Range Prone Tactical Match, 1000 Yard Prone Match, GSM AR-15 Match and NRA X-Course Matches. ​​Coaching and instruction will be provided on the following topics:

Long-Range Prone​Tactical Rifle Match

The Long-Range Prone Tactical Rifle match is held quarterly on the fourth Sunday of the third month of the quarter. Subject to seasonal adjustments, squadding starts at 0630 (0730 winter) and the match itself starts at 0700 (0800 winter). Normal finish time is noon. This new Long-Range Prone Tactical Rifle program has been designed to provide civilian, military, and police shooters with an opportunity to shoot a long range competition using semi-automatic or bolt action rifles and equipment generally thought of as being “tactical” in design and use. Rifles will be limited to .35 caliber and must be capable of at least 10 round external magazines. Muzzle brakes and suppressors are allowed. Because this is prone competition, shooters may use tactical front rests such as Harris-type bipods.

The course of fire is a combination of the CMP Sniper and NRA Long-Range 60-shot courses. The course consists of 20 shots at 300 yards, a string of ten slow fire shots and a string of 10 shots of prone rapid fire. Moving back to 600 yards for 10 shots of prone slow fire and 10 shots of sniper fire. Then twenty slow fire shots at 1000 yards. Unlimited sighting shots are allowed before each stage. As each relay completes the various stages at the different yard lines there are multiple scoring and pit crew changes as the other relays take their turns shooting, scoring, and in the pits.​At this match we strive for a relaxed, friendly atmosphere with the emphasis on learning and skill development.

The Mid-Range Prone Tactical Rifle match is held quarterly on the fourth Sunday of the second month of the quarter. Subject to seasonal adjustments, squadding starts at 0630 (0730 winter) and the match itself starts at 0700 (0800 winter). Normal finish time is noon. This new NRA Mid-Range Prone Tactical Rifle program has been designed to provide civilian, military, and police shooters with an opportunity to shoot an NRA Mid-Range Prone competition using semi-automatic rifles built on an “AR-Platform” and equipment generally thought of as being “tactical” in design and use. The rifles for this match will be configured so as to replicate as closely as possible the tactical rifles (semi-automatic) and equipment used by the United States Military and America’s Law Enforcement Community in “mid-range” tactical applications. Muzzle brakes and suppressors are allowed.

​The course of fire is the NRA Mid-Range Prone Tactical 60-shot course. The course consists of twenty slow fire shots at 200 yards. Then the shooters move back to 300 yards for a string of ten slow fire shots and a string of 10 shots of prone rapid fire. Finally moving back to 600 yards for 10 shots of prone slow fire and 10 shots of sniper fire. Unlimited sighting shots are allowed before each stage. As each relay completes the various stages at the different yard lines there are multiple scoring and pit crew changes as the other relays take their turns shooting, scoring, and in the pits.​At this match we strive for a relaxed, friendly atmosphere with the emphasis on learning and having fun. This match is an excellent introduction to Highpower shooting and a way for experienced shooters to come out and hone their skills.

​1000 Yard Prone Match

atch Director:Ron Zerr -915-494-1892r_zerr@hotmail.comRon wants to evolve the 1000 yard Prone Match program so he’s got some questions and hopefully you will all provide some feedback for him. Ron has a lot of experience in the shooting world so we look forward to having him be a great resource for TRC.

From RonIn order to help set things up, I would like to find out what the desires of our shooters are. Keep in mind, we will have divisions for F-Class, as well as sling shooters. Having discussed things with Don and Larry, we will allow anyone to shoot with an adequate and safe rifle, to include those with muzzle brakes, or even silencers (tactical, or precision-rifle types). As always, part of "adequate" will be safe, that rounds make it into the target, and still supersonic or at least stable (no key-holing). Shooters using muzzle brakes will be required to shoot using baffles, or sufficiently off to one end so as not to disturb other shooters.1.What course of fire do you want?